Day: November 16, 2013

The legendary composer Steve Reich has taken on Radiohead for his latest project, and this Saturday night it will have its NYC debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (though it previewed earlier this year at Guggenheim). The piece is called ‘Radio Rewrite’ and will be performed by the 20-member-band Alarm Will Sound. There are a few tickets left, and having seen the Guggenheim preview, we highly recommend you pick some up. Yesterday, Alex Tween (a musician in the band The Forms) spoke with Reich about the piece, about David Byrne‘s recent comments and criticisms of NYC, and just about everything else…

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The Scandinavian trio the Thing opens its new album Boot! (The Thing)—the group’s first release on its own label—with a treatment of John Coltrane‘s spiritual, indelible “India” that seethes, stomps, and staggers, as if a Tyrannosaurus rex had decided to try its hand at jazz (you can check it out after the jump). It’s a sound Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and the Norwegian rhythm section of bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love have been developing and honing—although sometimes, at its most bludgeoning, it feels as if they’ve deliberately dulled its edge rather than sharpening it—for nearly 14 years, refining an almost telepathic interplay while stoking an uncontainable ferocity. When the group hooked up with singer Neneh Cherry a couple of years ago it made plenty of sense, because the Thing could hit as hard as just about any rock band, but now that the collaboration has ended, Boot! finds the trio serving up the most furious sounds of its career.